COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: Gordon has served as
Chairman and co-Chairman of the Louisiana Heart Fund, Chairman of the
March of Dimes (Mother's March), Honorary Chairman for Muscular
Dystrophy, and Board of Directors for the Boy Scouts of America and
Boys' Club of Greater New Orleans.

EXPERIENCE: Gordon, a Navy Captain, received
his wings as a naval aviator in 1953. He then attended All-Weather
Flight School and jet transitional training and was subsequently
assigned to an all-weather fighter squadron at the Naval Air Station at
Jacksonville, Florida.

In 1957, he attended the Navy's Test Pilot
School at Patuxent River, Maryland, and served as a flight test pilot
until 1960. During this tour of duty, he did flight test work on the F8U
Crusader, F11F Tigercat, FJ Fury, and A4D Skyhawk, and was the first
project test pilot for the F4H Phantom II. He served with Fighter
Squadron 121 at the Miramar, California, Naval Air Station as a flight
instructor in the F4H and participated in the introduction of that
aircraft to the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. He was also flight safety
officer, assistant operations officer, and ground training officer for
Fighter Squadron 96 at Miramar.

Winner of the Bendix Trophy Race
from Los Angeles to New York in May 1961, he established a new speed
record of 869.74 miles per hour and a transcontinental speed record of 2
hours and 47 minutes.

He was also a student at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California.

He has logged more that 4,500 hours flying time--3,500 hours in jet aircraft.

NASA EXPERIENCE: Captain Gordon was one of the
third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. He served as
backup pilot for the Gemini 8 flight.

On September 12, 1966, he
served as pilot for the 3-day Gemini XI mission--on which rendezvous
with an Agena was achieved in less than one orbit. He executed docking
maneuvers with the previously launched Agena and performed two periods
of extravehicular activity which included attaching a tether to the
Agena and retrieving a nuclear emulsion experiment package. Other
highlights accomplished by Gordon and command pilot Charles Conrad on
this flight included the successful completion of the first tethered
station-keeping exercise, establishment of a new altitude record of 850
miles, and completion of the first fully automatic controlled reentry.
The flight was concluded on September 15, 1966, with the spacecraft
landing in the Atlantic--2 1/2 miles from the prime recovery ship USS
GUAM.

He
occupied the command module pilot seat on Apollo 12, November 14-24,
1969. Other crewmen on man's second lunar landing mission were Charles
Conrad, spacecraft commander, and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot.
Throughout the 31-hour lunar surface stay by Conrad and Bean, Gordon
remained in lunar orbit aboard the command module, "Yankee Clipper,"
obtaining desired mapping photographs of tentative landing sites for
future missions. He also performed the final re-docking maneuvers
following the successful lunar orbit rendezvous which was initiated by
Conrad and Bean from within "Intrepid" after their ascent from the
moon's surface.

All of the mission's objectives were accomplished
and Apollo 12 achievements include: The first precision lunar landing
with "Intrepid's" touchdown in the moon's Ocean of Storms; the first
lunar traverse by Conrad and Bean as they deployed the Apollo Lunar
Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP), installed a nuclear power generator
station to provide the power source for these long-term scientific
experiments, gathered samples of the lunar surface for return to earth,
and completed a close up inspection of the Surveyor III spacecraft.

The
Apollo 12 mission lasted 244 hours and 36 minutes and was concluded
with a Pacific spashdown and subsequent recovery operations by the USS
HORNET.

Captain Gordon has completed two space flights, logging a
total of 315 hours and 53 minutes in space--2 hours and 44 minutes of
which were spent in EVA.

He served as backup spacecraft commander for Apollo 15.

Captain Gordon retired from NASA and the USN in January 1972.

Since
then he has served as Executive Vice President of the New Orleans
Saints Professional Football Club in the National Football League
(1972); was General Manager of Energy Developers, Limited (EDL), a Texas
Partnership involved in a joint venture with Rocket Research
Corporation for the development of a liquid chemical explosive for use
in the oil and gas industry (1977); President of Resolution Engineering
and Development Company (REDCO) which provided design and operational
requirements for wild oil well control and fire fighting equipment
onboard large semi-submersible utility vessels (1978); following REDCO
merger with Amarco Resources, Gordon assumed the additional duties of
Vice President of Marketing, Westdale, an oil well servicing subsidiary
of AMARCO operating in North Central Texas and Oklahoma, and also served
as Vice President for Operations, Texas Division (1980); served as
Director, Scott Science and Technology, Inc., Los Angeles Division
(1981-1983). In March 1982 he became President of Astro Sciences
Corporation. This company provides a range of services including
engineering, project management, project field support teams, to
software and hardware system design for control room applications. In
the Summer of 1984, Gordon was a Technical Advisor for and played the
part of "Capcom" in the CBS mini-series 'Space' by James A. Michener.

AUGUST 1985

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